inspiration

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

"Sometimes the things that are felt the most are expressed between two souls over the distance and over time...where no words abide. And others may speak freely, live with one another freely, express themselves freely– just like everyone else, but then there is you... you have no words for proof of reassurance, no tokens of professed love, but you have something. Something worth keeping."

"We all have something redeemable in us, no matter how small."- Laura Armstrong, A Human Element"

"When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I’ll have a book."

"إن كان في حياتك تمّة شئٌ يستحقُ التأجيل ... فليكن التأجيلُ نفسُه"

"Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels."

"إذا كنت لاترى إلا مايظهره النور، ولاتسمع إلا ماتعلنه الأصوات فأنت بالحقيقة لاترى ولاتسمع٠"

"Someone once told me that the finer points of devotion are about the size of a pinhole, and there are millions of them. And if you could connect each dot, then you’ve got a diagram of what you think you thought you knew, and if you’re willing to admit that you know nothing…you have the blueprint for a breakthrough."

"We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become."

"That’s what being alive is, Thing! It’s being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing!"

"This is the key to life: To expect everything to be given to you from above, yet to be genuinely surprised and forever grateful, when they are. Expecting all good things to be yours, while not knowing how to take anything for granted. If there may be a key in life, this is the key."

"You change your life by changing your heart."

"Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt is often a sign that your faith has a pulse, that it's alive and well and exploring and searching. Faith and doubt aren't opposites, they are, it turns out, excellent dance partners."

"A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."

"I don't go out with strangers,"I said."Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five."

"That's the scary thing about hope,"she said. "If you let it go too long it turns into faith."

"The pressures on gay teens can be overwhelming--to keep secrets, tell lies, deny who you are, and try to be who you're not. Remember: you are special and worth being cared about, loved, and accepted just as you are. Never, ever let anyone convince you otherwise."

"Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!"

"What hurts us is what heals us"

"No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started."